Tyne and Wear

            Tyne and Wear, metropolitan county in northeastern England. Named for its two main rivers, the Tyne and the Wear, it is bounded by the administrative counties of Northumberland (north and west) and Durham (south) and by the North Sea (east). It is an urban industrial region that comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the cities of Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne.